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Seneca (4 BCE – 65)

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) (c. 4 BC – AD 65) was a Roman stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to the Emperor Nero.

Seneca

WorksEdit

Dramatic worksEdit

Collections

• The Eyght Tragedie of Seneca entituled Agamemnon translated out of Latin into English, by John Studley
• Seneca, his tenne tragedies, translated into Englyſh, transl. Jasper Heywood, Alexander Neville, John Studley, T. Nuce, Thomas Newton (1581) (External scan)
• The Ten Tragedies of Seneca, trans. Julian Watson Bradshaw (1902) (transcription project)
• The Tragedies of Seneca, trans. Frank Justus Miller (1907) (transcription project)

Tragedies

• Agamemnon
• Hercules Furens (Madness of Hercules)
• Hercules Oetaeus (Hercules on Oeta)
• Medea
• Oedipus
• Phaedra (or Hippolytus)
• Phoenissae (Phoenician Women, or Thebais)
• Thyestes
• Troades (Trojan Women)

Fabula praetexta

• Octavia (authorship disputed)

LettersEdit

• Moral letters to Lucilius (Loeb Classical Library edition; translated by Gummere)
• Seneca's letter describing gladiators

Consolations

• Of Consolation: To Helvia
• Of Consolation: To Polybius
• Of Consolation: To Marcia

EssaysEdit

• Apocolocyntosis
• On Benefits (De Beneficiis)
• Naturales quaestiones, translated as Physical science in the time of Nero (External scan)

Dialogues

• On the Shortness of Life (De Brevitate Vitæ)
• Of a Happy Life (De Vita Beata)
• Of Providence (De Providentia)
• On the Firmness of the Wise Man (De Constantia Sapientis)
• Of Anger (De Ira)
• Of Leisure (De Otio)
• Of Peace of Mind (De Tranquillitate Animi)
• Of Clemency (De Clementia)

Works about SenecaEdit

Encyclopedia articles

• “Seneca, L. Annaeus”, by George Long in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.
• “Seneca, L. Annæus” in The Nuttall Encyclopædia by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., 1907.
• “Seneca”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.

About his worksEdit

• The Influence of Seneca on Elizabethan Tragedy (1893) 1907 reprint: (External scan)